04/2022 - 03/2023 | Dean of the Law Faculty |
since 2019 | Director of the Institute for Digital Law Trier (IRDT), from 02/2019 - 03/2022 and since 3/2023 managing Director |
Since 08/2016 | Chair for Private Law, Law of the Information Society and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Trier, Calls for W-3 professorships at the universities of Erlangen (2016) and Passau (2018) declined |
2015-2016 | Acting professor, Chair of Private Law, Trade, Business & Corporate Law at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany |
2015 | Habilitation (post-doctorate) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Kiel on the topic „Calculation of damages for the infringement of intellectual property rights“; habilitation colloquium on „The applicable law of cross-border cartel damages claims“ |
| Venia legendi: Private Law, Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Private International and Comparative Law |
2012-2015 | Teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Private Law, Private International Law, International Civil Procedural Law and Copyright Law (Prof. Dr. Schack), and Chair of Private Law, Commercial and Business Law (Prof. Dr. Jickeli), University of Kiel, Germany |
11/2011 - 3/2012 | Attorney at Schultz-Süchting, Hamburg, a law boutique specializing in IP and commercial law |
2011 | Second Legal State Exam (with distinction) |
2009 - 2011 | Legal Traineeship (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg |
2010 | Doctoral degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Kiel on the topic „Freedom of imitation after the expiration of intellectual property rights“ (summa cum laude) |
2007-2009 | Teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Private Law, Private International Law, International Civil Procedural Law and Copyright Law (Prof. Dr. Schack), University of Kiel |
2007 | First Legal State Exam (with distinction) |
2002-2007 | Legal studies at Bucerius Law School, Germany, and the Université Bordeaux IV Montesquieu, France |